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After many struggles with Snell Hall, Counseling and Psychological Services office renovations approved By Kat Kothen
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When he heard about the conditions of Counseling and Psychological Services Snell Hall offices last fall, Trevor Byrd, an Associated Students of Oregon State University senator and a junior in political science, was shocked. “We were all kind of surprised that an office on campus would be in such a state of disrepair,” Byrd said. Marcey Bamba, the interim director of CAPS, spoke to the ASOSU Senate at the suggestion of the CAPS Advisory Board, a group of students in charge of approving budgets and decisions made for CAPS. Bamba spoke to them to try to garner some support for CAPS, because at the time she felt “stuck.” Byrd said he felt he had to bring attention to the problems plaguing CAPS. In the end, he decided writing a letter to the university would be the best way to get the story heard. “When I wrote the paper, I entitled it ‘Why OSU Doesn’t Care About Your Mental Health’ because honestly, as a student, that’s the message (the state of CAPS’ offices) sends,” Byrd said. “I personally believe, and I think a lot of people at ASOSU believe, that mental health is a central component Graphic by Eric Winkler
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Concerted effort to improve bivalve health in Oregon has led to breakthrough findings By Justin Frost
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George Waldbusser, an assistant professor in the College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, found his interest in the ocean and environment years ago as an undergraduate at St. John’s University in New York. “I worked on oyster recruitment as part of an effort to restore habitat around New York City,” Waldbusser said. “I ended up being a teacher’s assistant for a field course, and one of the people in the course didn’t know that Manhattan, where we were going to school, was an island. That was pretty astounding.” Scientists and researchers often struggle to accurately convey their research findings to the public due to misinterpretation from both the press and the public. Now, as a professor, Waldbusser and his colleagues aim to improve public understanding of the environment and the role that oceanic organisms play in its maintenance. They also strive to solve issues plaguing various industries in Oregon and around the world. In the past few years, shellfish hatcheries in Oregon have seen declining productivity from the shellfish populations. For answers, they reached out to researchers at Oregon State University. “What is amazing about this project is that the shellfish hatcheries reached
out to the scientists at Oregon State in order to understand why their production numbers were falling,” said Iria Gimenez, a graduate student in Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. “Our work was being done for Oregon’s coastal community and ended up leading us to breakthrough findings regarding ocean acidification.” These findings have directly impacted the economy of Oregon, as bivalves (such as oysters) clean water and provide habitat and food for many species in the ocean, not to mention humans. There has been extensive public interest in the role ocean acidification plays in bivalve health in the northwest, according to Waldbusser. He is currently a collaborator in a National Science Foundation-funded study of the role bivalve health plays in northwest culture, community and economy. “Many tribes and many rural populations rely on shellfish production to create jobs,” Waldbusser said. “Ocean acidification affects the larvae of the shellfish by preventing proper development of their shell. We found that this was contributing to declining production of shellfish.” The chemistry behind this issue was difficult to decode at first, so Waldbusser collaborated with Burke Hales, a professor in the College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences with a strong background in chemistry as well as geology. “What we found in this study is that as carbon dioxide levels rise in the atmosphere, they rise in the ocean,” Hales said. “This forms carbonic acid, See OCEAN | page 2
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Socratic club faculty adviser Gary Ferngren (left) and Socratic club President Braden Anderton (right) help promote the ideals of the Socratic club, such as debate and dialogue on topics in religion and philosophy.
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that Anderton remembers vividly. “Both speakers understood each other,” Anderton said. “Because of this, you really got to the heart of the matter: Can we trust that our thoughts and what we perceive By Meghan Vandewettering about the external world really correlate with that the THE DAILY BAROMETER world is actually like?” Can individuals believe that their perception is truth? Braden Anderton, president of Oregon State University Did Jesus of Nazareth claim to be God? How can people Socratic club, reclined in his armchair and recalled a recent Socratic club event: “Does Absolute Truth exist, understand Christian Hell and the love of God? Was the resurrection of Jesus recorded fact or a narrative of faith? and does it matter?” When OSU Professor of History Gary Ferngren foundThe debate the club hosted on campus between See SOCRATIC | page 3 Michael Gurney and Michael Patton in November is one n
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the church. The attending officer arrested the man for assault in the fourth degree, disorderly conduct in the second degree, harassment and attempted criminal mischief in the second degree.
Turn signals A BCSO officer arrested a man during a routine traffic stop after discovering the man had an active warrant. The officer reported that he saw the man fail to signal a lane change while driving on Highway 20. After learning the man had a warrant out for his arrest, the officer logged that he took the man into custody for driving with a suspended license and a parole violation.
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Around 3 a.m. Saturday, a BCSO officer pulled over a man who had allegedly been driving the wrong way down 3rd Street in downtown Corvallis. A brief investigation ensued and, according to the officer’s logs, he arrested the man for failure to obey a one-way designation and driving under the influence of intoxicants. The man’s alleged blood-alcohol content was 0.14 percent.
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A man contacted the CPD Jan. 5 to report that a woman had allegedly vandalized his vehicle while he was at a gas station on Southwest 4th Street. According to CPD logs, a woman presumed to be in her 20s had “just wiped feces on the passenger’s side door and handle” of the vehicle in which he had been a passenger. The man reportedly told officers that the woman Friday, January 9 became irate after he and the driver of the vehicle had refused to purchase alcohol for her. She then allegedly walked northbound Friday morning, an officer from the “with her pants down, mooning them.” An Corvallis Police Department reported to employee of the gas station was allegedly a church on Southwest Madison Avenue able to provide a name for the woman, as following complaints of a fight. According well as surveillance footage of the woman to officer logs, a man had gotten into wiping something onto the vehicle. Officers a “disagreement” with a church staff were unable to locate the woman. member and allegedly started “kicking, punching and spitting” at the staff memThe Daily Barometer ber before trying to kick out a window of news@dailybarometer.com
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OCEAN n Continued from page 1 which reacts with basic species such as carbonate. Carbonate is a critical component in shell formation, and less carbonate in the ocean makes it difficult for shellfish to form their shells.” Getting this message to the public has been difficult, according to Hales, Waldbusser and Gimenez. Their work gains a fair share of media attention due to its interconnectivity with climate change and rising carbon dioxide levels. “It is important that the public realizes that ocean acidification is not the central issue, but rather the role rising carbon dioxide levels play in carbonate sequestration in the ocean,” Hales said. “We’re fired up about this, as people are looking at the wrong variable. pH of the ocean isn’t relevant so much as the fact that it is occurring due to increasing levels of carbon dioxide.” Through interdisciplinary work and critical evaluation of the issues at hand, Waldbusser’s group has been able to uncover the key element at play and communicate that with both the shellfish growers of Oregon as well as the scientific community. “If I can apply my science in an economically relevant way, it makes me feel even better about the work,” Gimenez said. “It took a lot of effort to get this done; these findings should be a wake-up call regarding how we impact these marine ecosystems.” Justin Frost, news reporter news@dailybarometer.com
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SALEM — Where do you see yourself in 10 years? The state of Oregon knows where it wants to be, and the answer can be found online. The “10-Year Plan for Oregon” is not new. It was conceived in 2012 but remained largely buried in dozens of pages of academic jargon and a website buried within a website. The new version was unveiled last week, and it is nothing if not spiffy. The plan consists of two pieces: policy goals and data. There are six policy areas, which are economy and jobs, education, healthy environment, healthy people, public safety and improving government. There is a political element to them, as each of those (except “improving government”) also appeared in Gov. John Kitzhaber’s recommended budget, and his office helped write the methodology for accomplishing the goals. The data, however, did not come from a political font. Department of Administrative Services Director Michael Jordan said the data was pulled from agencies and other sources across the state. It had to meet certain criteria. It had to come from a reliable source that has collected this data in the past, must be easy for the public to understand and must be available in a fashion that allows it to be broken down by county or by socioeconomic status, for example.
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Ideally, Jordan said, it had to be available over time. “This stuff is really only valuable if you can see trends over time,” he said. Jordan’s plan is to convene a “summit” every two years to examine the evolving data and hold it against policies and programs the Oregon Legislature has approved to show whether they are working. If a program doesn’t serve its intended purpose, such as reducing poverty or increasing third-grade reading, it should be changed or replaced, he said. Too often the government doesn’t know whether its programs are having an impact, and the marriage of long-term data trends with policy goals and methods will allow it to do so, Jordan said. It is all useful data. What’s more — it is fun and elegant to use. For example, the “economy and jobs” section includes a map showing a time lapse of poverty rates in every Oregon county from 1990 to the present. It is a perfect way to show the change, which isn’t in a positive direction. Anyone working in a job that needs data for a report or project will love this. Anyone telling a story will love this. Jordan loves this. The data allows lawmakers and government officials to start asking, “Why?” he said. Why has poverty in Oregon been getting worse since long before the Great Recession? Why is the graduation rate in Estacada not quite 41 percent? Why were 54 out of 1,000 children being abused in Gilliam and Wheeler counties in 2012 while
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Fukishima radiation mapping in the Pacific could bolster climate science By Jes Burns
Ocean operate. Scientists generally rely on computer OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING PORTLAND — Since the Japanese models to predict how currents work. earthquake and Fukushima nuclear But for all its negative consequences for disaster of 2011, radiation has been health and the environment, radiation in drifting on ocean currents toward the the Pacific Ocean is proving to have an upside for scientists: It’s something you West Coast of North America. Scientists tracking the radiation are can actually follow as it moves through using their data not just to gauge threats the water. Now, with Smith’s findings, they have to human health, but to bolster the scireal-time data to back those models up. ence of climate change, as well. “It’s a way to prove that these models “This is kind of an experiment that’s never really been conducted before actually work the way they’re intended and that they’re actually in our lifetime,� says predicting reality,� says John Smith of Canada’s smith. Bedford Institute of This is the kind of The reliability of these Oceanography. an experiment that’s computer current modWhat’s unique is that els is important on sevresearchers know the never really been eral fronts. exact origin and time conducted before First, they allow preframe the Fukushima dictions of where and radiation was released. in our lifetime. how much Fukushima Then, when they detectradiation will make it ed the radiation out in John Smith to U.S. and Canadian the ocean, they were Canada Bedford Institute of Oceanography shores. able to create accurate Scientists say the radimaps of where and how ation will not be concenquickly the radiation is trated enough to pose a moving. threat to human health.Here’s the math, Smith and a team of scientists used this to their advantage, publishing the first so to speak: Currently, scientists are finding levels of paper outlining the spread of cesium-137 radioactive cesium-137 from Fukushima eastward from Japan. They concluded that since the radia- at about 2 Bq/m3 off the coast of British tion is coming over on ocean currents, the Columbia. This is slightly higher than data they collected are good indicators ambient radiation levels in ocean water of how currents in the northern Pacific and about the same level of cesium-137
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“The highlights of the night region and beyond to present opposing sides, host the on- are often when the audience campus event and subsequent- gets to ask questions after the ly post the debate on YouTube. debate,â€? Anderton said. “It’s a By planning these debates real joy to see people come and making them free and easy and talk to the debaters afterto access on YouTube, the club wards, or to see people in the hopes to make people think lobby afterwards showing their about their beliefs in a critical own personal differences of opinion.â€? way. Ferngren “The club said he tries to get p e opl e to The highlights of the believes the best debates think about night are often when leave indithemselves, viduals in the world the audience gets the audience around to ask questions them and eager to share after the debate. the Christian personal faith in generopinions. al,â€? Anderton Braden Anderton “Sometimes said. “If at the Socratic club president they stay end of the around for day the club an hour makes someafterwards. one really consider what they (Debates) provoke good, hearty believe and why they believe it disagreement over important or they’re further confirmed in issues,â€? Ferngren said. “When I what they believe ‌ that’s all helped to start the club, debate we want to do: make people had fallen out of fashion. Some think.â€? people thought that it was really The OSU Socratic club events unnecessary, even undesirable.â€? are debates between experts, By continuing to help the but the club encourages student and community involve- student-run club host debates ment. At the end of the debate, as the Socratic club faculty advi-
ed the OSU Socratic club in 2001, he aimed to provide the community of Corvallis with means to intellectually and civilly debate moral, religious and philosophical questions such as these. “There was no venue on campus for debating serious issues that Christians believe,� Ferngren said. “People would bring in speakers to talk about these subjects, but it was onesided. I thought both sides ought to be presented.� Thanks to the Socratic club and it’s student officers, OSU continues to host a wide variety of religious leaders and academic experts to holistically debate big religious questions. According to Anderton, the officers represent a diverse group of students with varying academic interests and religious affiliations. “We have had (officers) who are agnostic, deist or atheist,� Anderton said. “Although we are a predominantly Christian group, anyone can join. It’s about having new ideas or opinions.� The club’s student officers the club invites the audience choose a debate topic, invite to present questions to the experts from the northwest experts.
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still in the ocean from atmospheric nuclear weapons tests of the last century. EPA drinking water standards for cesium-137 is 7,400 Bq/m3. Fukushima radiation levels are expected to increase before falling off again. “The first arrival of the signal was off the coast of British Columbia, but it will take a little longer for the signal to work it’s way down the western seaboard of the United States,â€? Smith says. Radiation levels from Fukushima are predicted to peak at about 3-5 Bq/m3 off Canada in 2015-16 before dropping back to background levels by 2021. Those dates are pushed forward for Washington, Oregon and California. Still these levels will be far before government safety thresholds. The second reason accurate current models are important is that they are a key tool used by scientist studying climate change. “That’s what these models are intended to do. That’s how these models are used by‌ climatologists and physical oceanographers,â€? says Smith. Because climate patterns are so integrally linked to ocean currents and temperatures, having accurate computer models is invaluable to predictions about how climate change will affect humans and the environment. The findings of Smith’s team were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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CAPS n Continued from page 1 to your well-being.” Byrd was able to talk more with Bamba and the CAPS Advisory Board, as well as tour of the facilities to learn more about the situation. The CAPS Advisory Board is made up of students, Bamba and Sherri Bird, Bamba’s assistant. “I got to see the state of their offices, and it’s really alarming; it’s sad, really,” Byrd said. Some of the issues Bamba and Bird brought up included cockroaches, rats and brown water running down the walls. “Every time it rains, we have a leaky roof,” Bamba said. “Possibly in someone’s office, usually in the kitchen area.” They also recalled a time in which all the tiles in their ceilings had to be removed because of their tendency to leak and their unpleasant smell. While Bird and Bamba explained that there were many issues with their offices, they added that when issues do come up, Facilities Services is always on top of fixing the problems. Things are looking up. In the end, Byrd decided to drop the letter because of the progress that has been made in improving CAPS. “The letter that I wrote is now redundant,” Byrd said. The CAPS Advisory Board approved a $281,000 project to update the offices on the 5th floor of Snell, and Bamba is working on getting three more counselors hired, bringing the counselor to student ratio closer to the recommended standard. While the rest of Snell moves into the Student Experience Center, CAPS’ renovations on the 5th floor will include incorporating their 3rd floor group therapy rooms. The current rooms don’t meet confidentiality standards and thus are a top priority for updates. The funding for these renovations is coming from CAPS’ own budget, which is completely student-fee funded. “We can use our fund balance, additional funds, to pay for the renovation,” Bamba said. “No one is offering $281,000 to do this.” At first Bamba thought they were not allowed to use the CAPS budget on this project, but after some misinformation was
abundance of lives. Words alone cannot express the urgency for a moral response. And so we turn to music.” Music professor and concert pianist Rachelle McCabe will take to the keys to complement Moore’s spoken component, according to the press release. The event, “In an Age of Extinction, A Call to Life,” will take place Jan. 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library and is free and open to the public. news@dailybarometer.com
Leaders: Rural Oregon needs special help By Jim Redden
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PORTLAND — Although not every potential worker in the Portland region is fully employed, the metropolitan-area economy is doing much better than the rest of the state. So much better, in fact, that high-level state action is require to help the rural parts of Oregon. That was one of the themes of the Business Leadership Summit held last Tuesday at the Oregon Convention Center. Hundreds of business and government leaders attended to discuss an agenda for the 2015 Oregon Legislature. Called the Oregon Business Plan, it is intended to continue the economic recovery by creating more goodpaying jobs and reducing poverty. Although the state has now recouped all of the jobs lost during the Great Recession, incomes still lag behind the national average. “We need to have a serious conversation about the inherent contradiction in our economic recovery that is creating jobs but still leaving hundreds of thousands of Oregonians behind,” Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber said during his keynote speech. Some ideas for the Portland area were included in the plan, like funding transportation projects to help speed the shipment of goods through the Port of Portland. But many of the proposals were focused on those parts of the state where unemployment is still at recessionary levels — such as Crook, Curry, Grant and Harney counties, where more than 10 percent of the work force
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Oregon State University professors will combine piano music with spoken words to raise awareness of the damage climate change and extinction threaten to the life Earth nurtures, according to a press release from OSU. “The truths of our time are deeply challenging,” said Kathleen Dean Moore in the press release. Moore is a distinguished emeritus professor and a writer laureate. “In the face of on-rushing extinctions and chaotic climate change, we must feel called to safeguard Earth’s
I prefer Blackboard because I’ve used Blackboard longer, and Canvas seems to be too confusing and I haven’t even started using it yet.
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is unemployed, compared to 6.1 percent in the Portland region. The need to overcome the urban/rural split was repeatedly made by the most prominent speakers at the summit. The rural parts of the state are still suffering, said John Carter, chairman of the board of directors of Schnitzer Steel and chairman of the Oregon Business Council, which wrote the plan. And Kitzhaber announced a $200 million initiative aimed at boosting rural economies. That goal could have been controversial. One of the priorities of the plan calls for unlocking the state’s natural resources, which includes more logging, a hot-button issue for environmentalists. Oregon U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden said timber is a proxy for virtually every rural economic issue. “Many elected officials fear the issue,” Wyden said. But the biggest announcement at the summit concerned a $60 million initiative to develop and market a new lumber product that does not require logging old-growth trees — or older trees at all. Oregon State University and the University of Oregon are teaming up to research a new type of laminated wood product that already is being used to build tall residential and office buildings in Europe and Canada. Called “mass timber” and “cross-laminated lumber,” it can be made by certified companies with sustainably grown trees — a green building practice that is better for the environment than manufacturing the steel now used for high-rise buildings.
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cleared up, they decided to go ahead and spend the fund balance on the renovations. Bamba said that CAPS was originally invited to move into the SEC back in 2009, but were uninvited when the SEC committee decided that there was no room for CAPS and that the mission of CAPS and the mission of the SEC didn’t match. This is not the first time that hopes have been high for a move out of Snell. CAPS has been told eight separate times that they would be able to get a new space, time after time, it has fallen through. The Dixon DREAM project seems to be the next way out for CAPS. The DREAM project was shut down last year due to doubts of whether students would support raising student fees more to pay for this project. But the DREAM project is being revived by CAPS, Student Health Services and Dixon Recreation Center, and they hope to be funded by the OSU Foundation and alumni support in order to circumvent relying on student fees. But the DREAM project wouldn’t be done for another five to 10 years. Bamba’s current goal is to make the situation as good as possible, and that currently means updating the facilities they do have. “I want to make this home as safe and secure and livable as I can for all our staff,” Bamba said. “There isn’t many other places we could go.” Byrd and Bamba share the feeling that the renovations are not occurring to do anything special, just bring the facilities to standard. “We’re not indulging luxury; we are just trying to bring it up to a minimum standard of function,” Byrd said. “It makes me even more sad that we don’t have enough funds, but we threw a party for ourselves for raising a billion dollars.” Byrd hopes the university begins to pay more attention to the help that CAPS needs. “To push CAPS aside is to push students aside,” Byrd said. Kat Kothen, news reporter news@dailybarometer.com
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fter all the hype, all the trash talk and all the waiting, the College Football Playoff National Championship has come and gone. To the dismay of Duck fans and bandwagoners everywhere, Oregon will not be the home of the first CFP trophy, and U of O will not get their first National Championship win. To their credit, they have now been twice within the last four years, but those stats still equal a goose egg in the win column. I didn’t intend to gloat about the fact that a team from my home state lost so badly on one of the biggest stages in all of sports — but the sun was shining this morning when I woke up — so I viewed that as a positive. In all honesty I think the Ducks’ chance of winning the game Monday night went up in a cloud of marijuana smoke when redshirt freshman wide receiver Darren Carrington was ruled inactive for failing an NCAA-mandated drug test. His loss coupled with the suspension of redshirt freshman wide receiver Devon Allen — who was suspended for his part in the “no means no” chant following the Ducks’ Rose Bowl win over Florida State — might have sealed the fate of the Ducks’ offense. Carrington and Allen combined for 1,388 yards and 11 touchdowns during the regular season. For those who weren’t able to watch Monday, dropped passes were a common appearance, and that is something that perhaps Carrington and Allen could have helped with. Whether the absence of the two really affected the Ducks’ performance, no one will really ever know. What is known, however, is that the Ducks came up against a team of strength and old-style football and got handed their tail feathers. U of O ended up facing a front seven — most of whom will go to the NFL in April’s draft — like they had never seen all season. Ohio State prides itself on its defense, and Oregon got a lesson in that during the CFP Championship Game. The Buckeyes managed to expose the most glaring weakness for the Ducks: their defense. Offensive Player of the Game Ohio State’s sophomore running back Ezekiel Elliott tore the Ducks apart, rushing for 246 yards — on 36 carries — and four touchdowns. If the Ducks hope to have another run at the CFP next year, their front seven and containment will have to be a top priority. For now it will be back to business as usual for the Ducks and the continued building of a championship team. In that way, this makes the Beavers and the Ducks on the same footing. That is unless junior quarterback Marcus Mariota decides to stay on for another year and go for the trophy again. If that is the case, then obviously Oregon will have one up on Oregon State. But for now, next year is next year. The sun might have been shining this morning, but it’s muddied now, as we live in a world where college football doesn’t exist — for seven months, that is. TeJo Pack, sports editor On Twitter @pack6124 sports@dailybarometer.com
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One of the first things Oregon State head coach Wayne Tinkle said in the post game press conference Sunday after his team’s 58-56 win over No. 7 Arizona was “all that it proves is that it’s tough to win in this conference on the road.” The Wildcats suffered their first Pac-12 loss while in Gill Coliseum and the Beavers remained unbeaten in Corvallis. “In (Arizona’s) defense, they’ve been on the road for a while,” Tinkle said. “But I’m not taking anything away from my guys; our guys played their absolute you-know-whats off.” Now OSU has to prove it can recreate the same results from Sunday when playing away from home. It’ll get that chance at 6 p.m. Thursday, when OSU (11-4, 2-1 Pac-12) travels to take on Washington (11-4, 0-3 Pac12). OSU hasn’t beaten Washington in Seattle since Feb. 20, 2003, with 11 straight losses since that contest. After Thursday’s game, the Beavers will have fewer than 48 hours before tipoff in Beasley Coliseum against Washington State. For now, the Beavers are still reveling in their 2-point victory over the Wildcats, who had beaten two ranked teams earlier in the season and were coming off an Elite Eight appearance last year. “It was one guy after the other making plays,” Tinkle said of his team’s win on Sunday. “(Sophomore guard) Malcolm (Duvivier) didn’t have his best game for a while, and we kept telling him in the second half to hang in there … and that when the time came, he was going to make a play. He did.” Duvivier lifted in a crucial layup with 1:33 left in the game while taking a foul from Arizona sophomore forward Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, who stands five inches taller than the 6-foot-2 Duvivier, to put OSU up by four. Arizona only scored once more and OSU held on for the first Beaver win over a top-10 team in 15 years. OSU didn’t have any breakout scorers; no player totaled more than 12 points, but every scorer netted at least six. Players like junior forward Olaf Schaftenaar, who finished with nine points on 3-for-5 shooting from behind the arc, gave the extra push for the win. Schaftenaar played 30 minutes against Arizona despite suffering a lower leg injury three days earlier See MEN’S BASKETBALL | page 6
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Women’s basketball junior center Ruth Hamblin is The Daily Barometer Athlete of the Week after she helped lead the Beavers to a weekend sweep of the Ducks. While on the road in Eugene at McArthur Court, Hamblin pulled out
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Junior guard Victor Robbins goes up for a shot against Arizona during the Beavers’ win against the then No. 7 program Jan. 11 at Gill Coliseum.
all the stops and dominated under the hoop, coming away with 23 points on 11-17 shooting. She pulled down a total of eight rebounds and had two blocked shots. To date, Hamblin leads the team on most stat lines for the entire season with 203 total points, which has equated to a 13.5 points-per-game average. These are staggering figures considering she has 85 fewer minutes of game time than the next highest scorer: sophomore guard Sydney Wiese. In addition, Hamblin leads the team in field goal percentage where
she has maintained an above .500 average at .622. As common with most centers in basketball, she leads the total rebounds and block shots by staggering numbers. Quality stat lines out of Hamblin are not a surprise when you consider what she has accomplished during her time here at Oregon State. Last season, Hamblin finished out the season with an above .500 shooting percentage (.571), pulled down one shy of 300 rebounds and had 141 blocked shots. Including this year’s numbers, she has more than 500 total career points and rebounds in just two and a half
seasons. As a sophomore last season, Hamblin’s performance under the rim lead to her being a Pac-12 AllDefensive Team and All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention. She was also named to the Pac-12 All-Academic First Team and the Pac-12 Alltournament Team. Hamblin hails from Houston, British Columbia, where she attended Houston Christian School. She lettered all four years while attending HCS and started three. While there, she averaged 27 points, 13 rebounds and 11 blocks per game as a senior. See Athlete | page 6
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Utah (13-2, 3-0 Pac-12) Previous Rank: 2 There is a new leader of the Pac. The Utah Utes continue to show that they are the class of the Pac12 as they defeated Colorado — their only game of the week — by 25 points to push their record to 13-2. The Utes will have to beat Arizona in hopes to keep their perfect conference record alive. To do so they will have to take down Arizona in the desert in what will be a matchup between two top-10 teams. Arizona (14-2, 2-1) Previous Rank: 1 After taking care of Oregon fairly easily, the Wildcats were caught napping, and Oregon State took advantage and pulled off the unlikely upset. Despite the loss, Arizona is still an extremely talented team that is very capable of winning the Pac-12 and making a run in the NCAA tournament. Arizona can regain its position as top dog … err cat, if it can beat No. 9 Utah Saturday. Stanford (11-4, 3-1)
Previous Rank: 3 Stanford needs to be careful; it has been winning games, but just barely sneaking by its opponents. In their last three games The Cardinal have gone into overtime—defeating Washington in double overtime but losing to UCLA—and squeaked out a 78-76 victory over USC. It’s an interesting week for the Cardinal: they will take on their rival Cal Wednesday, then host reigning national champion Connecticut in a non-conference matchup.
Oregon State (11-4, 2-1)
Previous Rank: 8 Who would have thought at this point in the season that Oregon State would be this high in the power rankings? Not me, that’s for sure. But after sweeping the Arizona schools including an upset victory over then No. 7 Arizona Sunday evening, the Beavers deserve to be this high. This week, however, presents a new challenge for the Wayne Tinkle led Beavers, as they must travel to Washington and prove that they can win on the road, where they have a 1-4 record away from Gill Coliseum — they are a perfect 10-0 at home. Again, who saw this coming?
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Washington State (8-7, 2-1)
Previous Rank: 9 In their only game of the week, the Washington State Cougars went into Seattle and took down their rival Washington. That is a big step for Ernie Kent’s squad to not only beat its rival, but to do it on the road. The Cougars have won their last two games against teams that are struggling — Washington and Cal — and only beat each of them by three points. They will host both Oregon and Oregon State this week, which for many teams in the Pac-12, presents an opportunity to show if they are contenders or pretenders
Colorado (9-6, 2-1)
Previous Rank: 6 Who is Colorado? As of now it is are a difficult team to grade. Is it the team that rolled UCLA and USC? Or are is it the team that got run off the court by Utah and Wyoming? For the second game in a row, the Buffaloes will face a top-10 team when they travel to Tucson to take on Arizona. Will this team bounce back and show that it’s the team that has been to three straight NCAA tournaments? Or is this team setting up for a down year? We will have to see.
USC (9-7, 1-3) Previous Rank: 11 USC, much like its LA rival UCLA, had a bounce back after a rough week to open conference play. Although it went 1-1 over the week, it got a 14-point victory against Cal and took Stanford down to the wire. USC takes on UCLA with bragging rights on the line in its only game of the week. Washington (11-4, 0-3)
Previous Rank: 5 How hot is Lorenzo Romar’s seat these days? From 20082012 his teams finished no lower than 3rd in the conference—winning twice — and had a 50-18 conference record, the last two seasons he has an 18-18 record in the Pac-12. This season, after starting off winning its first 11 games, it found itself in the top-25. Since then, Washington dropped four straight games, including going 0-3 inconference. This week the Huskies host the surging Beavers on Thursday and the Ducks on Sunday. Can this be the week when Romar gets his mojo back?
Previous Rank: 4 Cal (11-6, 1-3) Yes, Oregon beat Oregon State last week, and should probPrevious Rank: 7 ably be ranked ahead of the Beavers, but after a blowout loss Cal is another team that is trending downwards. After to Arizona and narrowly beating winless, inconference team starting its season off winning 10 of their first 11, including Arizona State on their own court, the Ducks are not looking a convincing victory against Syracuse, it as formidable as they did earlier in has lost four of its last five games. Three of the season. The Ducks need to surethose losses came against teams that were up their defense; right now they are struggling—Washington State, USC and ranked 217th in points allowed at 67.7 UCLA. The Golden Bears will host their points per game. If they can improve rival, Stanford, tonight in their only game on that, they have enough offensive firepower to climb up this week. the Pac-12 rankings. Arizona State (8-8, 0-3) UCLA (10-7, 2-2) Previous Rank: 10 Previous Rank: 12 Yikes, Pac-12 play has not started well UCLA got just what it needed last week: a pair of wins for the Sun Devils. They have currently lost ending its five-game losing streak. During that losing streak, five of their last seven games and have not the Bruins played three teams ranked in the top-10, so this passed the 60-point threshold in their last team is battled tested, which should help it four contests. The road does not get any moving forward. Next up for the Bruins is a easier this week, as they host No. 8 Utah battle against USC in LA where both teams Thursday and Colorado Saturday. If the Sun Devils don’t are struggling at this point of the season. figure it out, they could fall to 0-5 inconference. Should the Bruins beat the Trojans, they will Brian Rathbone, sports reporter ride a three-game winning streak when they On Twitter @brathbone3 travel north to take on Oregon State next week. sports@dailybarometer.com
Does God Exist?
A debate on this age old question The Socratic Club at Oregon State University
The Socratic Club presents a debate free and open to the public. Thursday, January 15, at 7PM in Milam Auditorium (OSU) Featuring Dr. Michael Shermer of Chapman University and Fr. Lucas Laborde of St. Patrick Catholic Church in Portland presenting divergent views.
Dr. Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, and Presidential Fellow at Chapman University. Dr. Shermer received his Ph.D. in the history of science from Claremont Graduate University. He has authored many books, including Why Darwin Matters: Evolution and the Case Against Intelligent Design.
Fr. Lucas Laborde is the pastor of St. Patrick Catholic Church in Portland. He earned his M.A. in Philosophy at the Universidad del Norte Santo Tomás de Aquino, Italy, and studied Theology at San Carlos Borromeo Seminary in Rosario, Argentina. Fr. Laborde also spent five years as a Campus Minister at the OSU Newman Center.
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Junior guard Victor Robbins focuses on his shot during a free throw attempt against Arizona at home Jan. 11.
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against Arizona State. “(Late in the game) he says ‘coach, I can’t jump,’” Tinkle said. “I said: ‘well then, take a charge.’ And then he bangs a three when he comes off the bench.” The Beavers will be away from the favorable confines of Gill Coliseum — and the 6,191 fans on hand to watch Sunday’s upset — during the Washington road trip. OSU will have to learn to play well on the road this season, especially with the log-jamming trend of the Pac-12 in recent years. Last season, five teams in the conference finished with a 10-8 record and only four teams ended with more than 10 wins or losses in the 18-game season. One or two road wins could make a significance in the Pac-12 final standings. Washington and Washington State are both formidable opponents, even compared to the games later in the season at now-No. 10 Arizona and 11-4 Stanford. However, OSU only plays No. 8 Utah — the only undefeated team in the Pac-12 through three
games — and Colorado once, both in Gill Coliseum. Washington started out the season 11-0 and rose to No. 13 in the nation, using a 13-point win over then-No. 13 San Diego State and a 69-67 victory over then-No. 15 Oklahoma. Then Washington lost four straight games, dropping out of the top-25 rankings and starting 0-3 in Pac-12 play. The largest margin of defeat in those four games was a 68-60 overtime loss at Stanford, which was bookended by a 6-point loss to Cal and a 3-point loss to WSU. Despite being tied for last in the Pac-12 in conference record, only three Pac-12 teams have more overall wins on the year. If Washington returns to its winning ways of earlier in the season, OSU will face one of the better teams in the Pac-12. If the Beavers claim victory — regardless of how hot or cold the Huskies are — the Beavers will be 3-1 in conference and inching towards the top echelon of the Pac-12. Josh Worden, sports reporter On Twitter @BrightTies sports@dailybarometer.com
ATHLETE n Continued from page 5 These stats helped lead her team to a 61-2 record during her junior and senior seasons, including back-to-back championships in the British Columbia Senior Girls ‘A’ Basketball Championships. She also lettered four years in volleyball, and was selected as valedictorian of her graduating class her senior year. Hamblin was born in Smithers, British Columbia, has two older siblings and majors in pre-engineering. When she is not playing basketball or going to school, Hamblin rides and shows horses. The junior center will do some more showing Friday when the Beavers host Washington State at 6 p.m. in Gill. The Daily Barometer
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OSU abandoned CAPS in Snell Hall
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ounseling and Psychological Services at Oregon State University is a necessary program available to students who are often afflicted with extra stress and fatigue brought on by academics, finances and other demands of college life. They offer trained therapists, group therapy and a mind spa to help students cope with this stress in healthy and positive ways. One would think that such a necessary and constructive program like CAPS would be held in high esteem by its resident school, perhaps by housing it in a functional building equipped with the tools necessary to help students succeed with the experiences they have in college. One would think. CAPS currently resides in Snell Hall, the leaky bucket of Memorial Union East where the elevator breaks monthly and water oozes down the walls like so many fallen dreams. CAPS has been informed eight times that it would receive a new home equivalent to that of the International Living Learning Center, and every time the plans fall through. In fact, they are stuck in Snell for at least the next five to 10 years. The Orange Media Network and other student organizations move into a new building in a matter of weeks. But apparently, the new Student Experience Center is not available to our counseling services — CAPS was informed that there would not be enough room for them in the new building. They were shut down on this pipe dream before the new building was being built in conjunction with the claim that the SEC and CAPS mission statements were too different. Because clearly, student experience has absolutely no relation whatsoever to their quality and access to mental health services. It sounds too much to us like the popular kids telling the ones wearing glasses that they can’t sit at the same table as them. But the good news: CAPS will receive renovations to its fifth floor home of Snell by using their own rainy day budget funds; no one is willing to fund them for more than $200,000. The hope is that this will move things from below standard to standard. This is a travesty. This is how our school is treating our mental health service program: abandoning it in an old, leaky building with flaky promises for a future home and forcing it to draw from its own funds to renovate a temporary structure that should have been torn down years ago. What kind of message does this send to the students of OSU? That this school doesn’t value the mental health of its students enough to provide CAPS with a decent workplace.
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Size, comfort, protection matter for penises
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ear Dr. Sex, So my girlfriend and I just recently have started sexual activities. We’ve been able to do oral and anal fine. But vaginal is difficult. I have trouble staying hard once we try to put the condom on. I don’t know why this is, but I theorize that it might be because the condom is too small. I have a 7.75-inch length and a 6.1-inch girth, and we most recently tried Trojan Magnum XL. It feels too tight and keeps slipping. So, is the condom the problem? Or is it something else? Also, we’re having trouble penetrating. It might be because I’m too big for her, but then again, since I’m basically flaccid when I try to put the condom on — as stated above — that shouldn’t be the issue. So what’s going on there? Signed, Magnum PI (Penis Issues) Dear Magnum PI, So there’s a lot going on in your question — and a lot I’m not able to make sense of. I do want to try and help, but there are some contradictions in what you’ve told me. For example, I am having trouble understanding how something can be too tight yet keep slipping at the same time. Additionally, I don’t see how you could get a condom on a flaccid penis. That just never works. One other thing that is puzzling me is that you said you’ve been able to do oral and anal without a
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Ask Dr. Sex problem. Are you talking about some sort of non-penetrative anal stimulation, or are you talking about anal intercourse? If you are talking about anal intercourse being successful yet you are having a difficult time with condoms while attempting vaginal intercourse, are you telling me that you are having unprotected anal intercourse? Please don’t tell me you’re having unprotected anal. That is the number one way to transmit STDs and STIs — including HIV — to your girlfriend. That is not good. I am going to assume you are being honest about the size of your penis — being larger than average in both length and girth. Even so, condoms have an enormous capacity for expansion, particularly the Magnum XL. Even a standard condom can fit over my head or my forearm — up to my elbow. Now granted, I am short and therefore have relatively small forearms, but I am fairly confident my forearm is larger than any human penis. I understand that the condom may feel so tight and be so uncomfortable that you lose your erection once one is on, but it doesn’t seem like that’s what is happening if you are telling me you are putting the
condom on while flaccid — which still doesn’t make sense. So let’s go with this: The condom feels too tight and is so uncomfortable that you are either losing sensation or desire due to discomfort. If this is happening with the Magnum XL — the mother of all condoms (sorry mothers) — then you could try using an internal (female) condom. The shape of an internal condom is similar to that of a male condom but it is larger. It has a small ring at the closed end that snuggles up against the cervix and holds the condom in place when inserted into the vagina. It also has a large ring at the open end that sits around the outside of the vagina. If the two of you use one of these, then nothing is strangling your penis, yet there is a protective lining inside her vagina. Starting here would be a sort of process of elimination to figure out if the problem is the condom or the size of your penis. If penetration is doable, then you know the condom was the issue. If penetration is still difficult, then the condom isn’t the problem and the real issue is your size. The average vagina, even during sexual arousal, isn’t usually deeper than maybe five inches. There isn’t a lot of information on the range of the diameter of the average vaginal opening — the place where penetration could be the most challenging. This lack of information may be due to the vagina’s great capacity for See GREAVES | page 8
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or those of you who are unaware, on Jan. 8 the White House published a video of President Barack Obama announcing his awe-inspiring plan to make the first two years of community college free for students across the nation — who are willing to work for it. While the full details of this plan have yet to be released — other than the fact that it will require nearly $60 billion over the next 10 years — it is clear that this plan will have minimal benefits for students at four-year universities such as Oregon State. While I appreciate the fact that President Obama recognizes the need for financial support amongst the vast majority of students nationwide, I am disappointed by the lack of this plan to address students attending institutions of higher learning other than community colleges. With President Obama’s final words in his video stating that this plan is designed specifically so “that it benefits everybody, and not just some,” one cannot help but wonder how focusing primarIt is offensive ily on commuhow our nity college does anything but the government and opposite. education While it is true system continue that community colleges currently to stick it to make up the largstudents raised est portion of students pursuing in middle-class higher education, families, we have to recogregardless of nize what groups we are targeting their work ethic by focusing spe.... cifically on these institutions. Although some students enroll in community college due to a lack of financial aid, and others intend to use community college as a stepping stone towards transferring to a four-year university, these instances serve as special cases. The majority of students attending four-year universities — many of whom are paying for their own education and are therefore incurring greater debt than that of community college students — will receive little to no benefit from this design. Not only does this plan fail to benefit everybody as President Obama intends, but it perpetuates the prejudiced system of financial aid our nation currently employs — and that is unacceptable. It is offensive how our government and education system continue to stick it to students raised in middleclass families, regardless of their work ethic and dedication towards their own education. We live in a capitalist nation where one’s success should be dependent on hard work and ambition, not the quality of their upbringing and the accomplishments of their parents. While I fully recognize the need to support those brought up in low-class families who exhibit a tenacious desire to work hard and succeed, it is equally important that we reward students of all classes who demonstrate favorable qualities necessary for future success. However, many will unfortunately
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Kitzhaber, lawmakers take oaths of office Kitzhaber draws on history, inspiration SALEM — Gov. John Kitzhaber shared reflections on his personal and political life Monday after taking the oath of office for the fourth and final time. “I thought I would reflect on what I have learned these 36 years that is worth sharing, why I did it and what I would like to accomplish over the last four years – which will complete the arc of my political career,” Kitzhaber told the 78th legislative assembly. He credited his political career to his parents generation’s belief in government and to the presidential campaign of Robert Kennedy. “He was calling out the disparities and inequalities within our society and asking why we allowed them to exist. And that made a lot of people uncomfortable in 1968,” Kitzhaber said. “That was 46 years ago ... and asking that same questions today still makes people uncomfortable.” Kitzhaber’s speech was light on specific policy plans for the 78th Legislative assembly. Instead, he asked the House and Senate to focus on asking the right questions — especially when it comes to Oregon’s economic recovery. “If the only questions we ask are how fast
is the state GDP growing and how many jobs we are creating then we don’t have to worry about their quality: where the jobs are, what they pay, whether they are connected to upward career paths, who is getting them or the environmental cost of creating them,” Kitzhaber said. Earlier in the day the House took its oath of office as a group and elected Rep. Tina Kotek, D-Portland, as its speaker again. Kotek centered her remarks around the importance of “really hear(ing) each other” and communication. She told the body, which has 35 Democrats and 25 Republicans, that it’s perfectly OK to be a group of people with different views but it wouldn’t be OK to shy away from difficult conversations. Over in the Senate, Sen. Peter Courtney, D-Salem, was sworn in for his seventh term as the chamber’s president. Courtney drew an analogy between weather and politics by sharing the story of the time he and his brother, Bill, successfully lit a fire in the rain while on a Boy Scout camping trip. “The question is: can we, can you, can I build a fire in Oregon’s rain? Can we do this?” Courtney asked the 18 Democrats and 12 Republicans in the Senate.
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view President Obama’s new plan to offer two free years of community college as a step in the right direction towards reducing the debt of our generation, when in actuality it will stand to elongate the problematic tendencies of our current financial aid system — leaving students attending four-year universities such as Oregon State on the path towards enormous amounts of debt.
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PORTL AND — John Kitzhaber sounded a philosophical note or two as he took office Monday as Oregon governor for the fourth time. In remarks he prepared for a joint session of the Legislature, Kitzhaber invoked memories of his parents and Robert Kennedy in calling for expanding prosperity to thousands of Oregonians who have not shared in the state’s economic recovery from the Great Recession. His parents were part of the World War II generation, and his father was in the U.S. 3rd Army, led by Gen. George Patton, that helped conquer Nazi Germany in 1945. His political inspiration was Kennedy, a senator from New York who was assassinated during a bid for the presidency in 1968, when Kitzhaber was a college student. Kitzhaber says the war united the nation in a common purpose, and Kennedy’s campaign raised questions about national economic and racial inequities, similar to today’s problems in Oregon. “Now, the answers to these questions are complicated — I know that — and no one person, least of all me, has all the answers,” Kitzhaber says. “But if we begin by asking the right questions, I know we can make progress, because an Oregon economy that moves some of us forward while leaving others behind diminishes progress for everyone.”
Drawing on lessons Kitzhaber, a Democrat who turns 68 in March, was sworn in by former Chief Justice Paul De Muniz for a fourth term. He was governor from 1995 to 2003, and after sitting out eight years, was elected to a record third term in 2010. He was re-elected Nov. 4 by just under half the 1.5 million votes cast. Kitzhaber was an emergency-room physician when he was elected to the House from a Douglas County district in 1978. Two years later, he was
elected to the Senate, where Los Angeles I knew I wanted he served for 12 years, eight of to commit my life to public service.” them as Senate president. “As it turned out, I have spent most of my adult life in this building and I love it very During last week’s Oregon much,” he says. Business Summit, Kitzhaber Earlier in the day, the Legislature organized for its embraced its goals of linking next two years. All 60 represen- school with work, boosting the tatives and 16 of the 30 senators economies of rural communitook their oaths for new terms, ties, and modernizing transporDemocrat Peter Courtney of tation systems. “But even if we are successful Salem was chosen for a seventh two-year term as Senate in implementing these goals president, and Democrat Tina — all of which I support – Kotek of Portland for a second we will not succeed in giving two-year term as House speak- all Oregonians a greater share of prosperer. Democrats ity unless we hold an 18-12 have the courmajority over I have spent age and honRepublicans in the Senate, most of my adult esty to question one funand 35-25 in life in this damental fact: the House, the inherent their largest building and I contraction margins in love it very much. between six years. But a growing those majorieconomy and ties are only the increasfor the secJohn Kitzhaber ingly desperond time in Oregon Governor ate plight of Kitzhaber’s hundreds of thousands of our tenure as governor. Kitzhaber said in advance fellow Oregonians,” he says. “I think we can all agree that that his address would draw upon the lessons he had this situation is not only unfair learned in 36 years in politics. — but that it serves to widen His parents were part of what the disparities that divide us has been dubbed the “Greatest and makes it more difficult Generation,” which went on the for us to come together as a build the prosperous U.S. soci- community.” ety that emerged after World So what has he learned since War II. he took his first oath as a state “I grew up in an era where representative back in 1979 to people still believed in their help him achieve today’s goals? government, and saw it as a “I have learned that advancing vehicle through which they the common good cannot be could come together and do done from Salem but only by amazing things for our whole engaging people where they society that individuals could live and showing them that they not possibly do by themselves,” have a stake in the problem and a sense of ownership in the he says. Kennedy, however, raised solution. And we are doing that questions during his brief every day in Oregon,” he says. 82-day campaign about why “And here is something else I that prosperity was not shared have learned: that people in our among minorities. state and across our land want “I was inspired because of community, they yearn for a his passion and sincerity and sense of belonging, for a sense his courage to speak from the of a greater common purpose. heart and to say what needed After 36 years I am no longer to be said,” Kitzhaber says. “And young and I am certainly not from the moment he died in naïve ... but I am still idealistic.”
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